Jonathan Greig reports: Nearly half a million people had their sensitive financial information leaked during a cyberattack on NCB Management Services – a company that purchases debt. The Pennsylvania-based company sent out breach notification letters last week after discovering the attack on February 4. In documents filed with Maine’s Attorney General, the company said 494,969 people had…
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Illinois Gastroenterology Group settles class action litigation for undisclosed sum
There has been a settlement in litigation stemming from a breach previously noted on DataBreaches. Without admitting guilt or wrongdoing, Illinois Gastroenterology Group has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle claims from an October 2021 data breach first disclosed in April 2022. The incident involved unnamed threat actors accessing and exfiltrating data on…
Bits ‘n Pieces (Trozos y Piezas)
CR: CONASSIF Hacked With Chinese Characters El Consejo Nacional de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero (CONASSIF) is involved with the Costa Rican financial system. On March 20, the Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRT-CR) on the website of the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT), issued an alert involving the website of CONASSIF after…
Rio Tinto data vendor GoAnywhere’s possible breach spotted in Jan-end
CNA reports: U.S. cybersecurity firm Fortra said suspicious activity was identified within its GoAnywhere software nearly two months ago, a day after Rio Tinto in a staff memo said personal data of some of its Australian employees may have been stolen. The internal memo seen by Reuters on Thursday revealed payroll information, like payslips and…
Pension Protection Fund confirms employee data exposed in GoAnywhere breach
Ross Kelly reports: The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has confirmed that data belonging to current and former employees has been exposed in the wake of the GoAnywhere breach. In a statement to IT Pro, the fund, which manages pension assets for nearly 300,000 clients, said it has informed affected staff and is providing support and…
More victims possibly identified in GoAnywhere vulnerability incident
Zack Whittaker and Carly Page report: The number of victims affected by a mass-ransomware attack, caused by a bug in a popular data transfer tool used by businesses around the world, continues to grow as another organization tells TechCrunch that it was also hacked. Canadian financing giant Investissement Québec confirmed to TechCrunch that “some employee personal…